Holmes, Rev. John Haynes, D.D.; Litt. D.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1879—still living. He graduated from Harvard, _summa cum laude_ in 1902, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Jewish Institute of Religion in 1930, from St. Lawrence University in 1931, and from Meadville Theological School in 1945; Doctor of Letters from Benares Hindu University, India, in 1947, and Doctor of Humanities from Rollins College, Florida, in 1951. He was installed as minister of the Third Religious Society (Unitarian), Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1904, and went to New York in 1907 as associate and successor to Rev. Robert Collyer, _q.v._, minister of the Second Congregational Unitarian Society, (Church of the Messiah, now called the Community Church of New York) of which he became pastor emeritus in 1949. He withdrew from the Unitarian fellowship in 1919, not on theological grounds but because he preferred a position independent of any denominational label. Throughout his career in New York he has been an outspoken leader in many causes for social betterment, and a prolific author in prose and verse who has published a large number of books, religious and biographical, and of printed sermons. No other American author of his period has written so many fine hymns which have been widely used in this country, in England, and in Japan. 1. _Accept, O Lord, this precious gift_ 8.6.8.6. 3 stas. Written for dedication on October 31, 1943, of Chapel in the rebuilt Community Church. 2. _Accept, O Lord, this temple_, 7.6.7.6.7.6. 3 stas. Written on the occasion of the rededication of the Community Church, December 31, 1922. 3. _All hail the pageant of the years_, 8.6.8.6.8.8. 5 stas. Undated Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. 4. _Almighty God, beneath whose eye_ C.M.D. 4 stas. An early hymn written for Labor Day Sunday in 1910. 5. _Almighty God, to whom the dark_ C.M.D. 3 stas. 8 l. A Vesper hymn written in 1906. 6. _America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers._ 7.6.7.6.D. 5 stas. Written during World War I, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. 7. _Behold, O God! our holy house_, C.M. 5 stas. September, 1919 Written on the occasion of the burning of the Community Church, September 11, 1919. 8. _Be with us, Father, in this place._ Dated 1945. 9. _Bless, thou, O God, this fellowship_ 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. Written for the Installation of Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, B.D., D.D. as President of the American Unitarian Association on October 7, 1958. 10. _Bright visions glow across the sky_, 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6. 3 stas. Written by Mr. Holmes in 1947 on the occasion of his 40^th anniversary as Minister of the Community Church. 11. _God of the nations, near and far._ C.M. 6 stas.